good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used
Wine is so much more than the juice in the bottle. Love, family, art, care, attention, and story goes into every sip that hits your lips.
The dream of Good Familiar Wine Co. is to create a community-focused wine store in Chicago, IL. For now, you can follow our newsletter for updates, insights, and stories of the wine industry that excite us and keeps us coming back to this project.
We hope to welcome you to our store one day, and thank you for following along.
the people
justin parramore
founder & creative director
Justin Parramore is a wine director and hospitality veteran who first found interest in wine running around as a kid in his dad’s restaurants. That interest has blossomed into a full-blown obsession, centered around the philosophy that no better connection can be made than one over a bottle of wine.
Justin is a Certified French Wine Scholar, WSET III holder, and is currently studying for his DipWSET - all of which just means he’s a nerd who can’t stand leaving school. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, writing, photography, and traveling to wine country.